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After a long time (life and stuff), I've released the next version. I've removed all the enhancements to the mod (shell casings, blood effects, etc.), as they were starting to annoy me, and I felt like I was being unoriginal. So, the enhancements are no longer a feature. The file size is down too, because of that. The only feature I haven't implemented yet is the variants for the Double Chaingunner. As always, constructive criticism welcome, and enjoy the mod. Feel free to give me suggestions, as after this the only thing I need to do is graphic work on sprites.
I'd beaten both all original DooM IWADs using the Hard Doom mod and I have to say it was a blast. I always found that there wasn't enough of the original DooM content in the mod. It was DooM, but not DooM. So, I'm taking a different approach. The same monsters, different taste of Hell.
I'm too young to die
-No Auto Use Health for inventory health pickups
-Normal Icon of Sin spawn rate
Hey, Not too rough
-Normal Icon of Sin spawn rate
MONSTERS -General:Zombies have multiple variants to add variety to your former brethren. Projectiles come out of where they would logically come from, not the middle of the monster’s face. Monsters also all have the correct blood color, and projectiles come out of where they’re supposed to, rather than the middle of their face. -Lost Soul: Randomly replaced by Forgotten One (Lost Soul that follows you during attacks). Lost Souls do not bleed when shot. -Zombie Man:Attacks with rapid three round bursts at close range (vanilla accuracy), more accurate single shots at long range (50% better accuracy). No longer continuous fire. -Shotgun Guy: Random SSG Zombie replacer, 1 in 4 odds of spawn. Normal one fires same amount of pellets as player. -Chaingun Guy: Random Double Chaingunner variant, 1 in 4 odds. Double chaingunner drops 2. chainguns upon death. They both fire more accurate bursts at long range, full auto at close range. -Imp: 50% chance of the imp ball chasing you down like the Revenant's missile. The tracking ball is slower than the standard imp ball. Additionally, there is a 20% chance an imp will be replaced with a variant that throws a Baron plasma ball, of which, does not home. -Demon: Randomly replaced by Blood Demon (Exact same attributes, except double the health). Also, they have a base damage of 4 rather than 6. -Spectre: Same -Cacodemon: Attack that launches 3 rather than one in a spread pattern like the Enhanced Caco -Pain Elemental: Now has a melee attack with same range and damage as Cacodemon -Arachnotron: Fire rate that matches the player's plasmagun -Revenant: Fire 2 rockets, one from each shoulder -Mancubus: Has randomly chosen patterns of projectiles. No more rehearsed patterns to get past their fireballs. -Hell Knight/Baron of Hell: Random attack of 1,2, or 3 plasma balls. -Spider Mastermind: Increase health to match that of the Cyberdemon -Wolfenstein SS: Automatic fire rather than slow fire -Stealth Monsters: Spectre style, cause that invisible crap annoys the hell outta me.
Screenshots
Spoiler:
Just a small enhancement, but the arachnotron now fires plasma out of its gun instead of the middle of its face
The Cacodemon's new second attack. Simple, but effective. Based on the Enhanced Cacodemon's missile decorate.
The Revenant's new attack. Two rockets, one from each shoulder.
The SSG Zombie. Sprites by David G.
The Demon's stronger counterpart. Based on Realm667's Blood Demon.
Shotgun Guy Variations
Zombieman Variations
Last edited by Taggart on Fri Dec 04, 2015 2:25 pm, edited 59 times in total.
and what are the good points for the player? because to be honest you are almost killing the player from the starting point ¬¬
if the level is on lava, poison, etc and you short the time of radiation suit yet made monster more hard to kill.. will i ever past that level? oh and i forgot even i dont take damage my life will be going to hell too??
dont sound very solid to be honest and is my opinion
2) Just to clarify from the above rule: you need to post screenshots! If a project thread is posted without screenshots, we'll give you 24 hours to get them added, or else your project thread is going to get locked. Not everybody wants to download a large-ish WAD file and puzzle over what exactly is changed, so it helps to show people what it looks like without making them read a wall of text or download a file and be surprised. The only exception is if the mod has already been released in the thread's first post, at which point screenshots are merely suggested, not required.
I know the nature of your project is probably difficult to make it screenshot-able, but even something as simple as one of the new attacks in action would be neat.
Taggart wrote:
ITEMS
-Shotgun Guy sometimes drops shells instead of shotgun
-Chaingun Guy sometimes drops clip instead of Chaingun
-Sometimes Zombies don't drop ammo or weapons at all
Stop. Right. There. This is a bad idea as this will cause any map that relies on killing your way to better weapons to rely on RNG.
The HP drain sounds a little harsh as well, especially on maps that don't have a lot of healing items. Or is this mostly just intended for a Doom 1/2 vanilla run?
Well none of it is really set in stone lol after some thought I'm gonna go without the health drain, or at least allow the player to choose between health drain and no health drain before starting a new game.
As far as the durations of some of the items Radiation Suit would be a good one to keep vanilla, I will give you that. As far as item drops with monsters I may, again, allow the player to disable the feature before starting a new game, thus the player won't be able to disable it as it suits them. I will, however, make it to where the items always drop. After testing this I found it a major cockblock to gameplay when they didn't appear at all. A shortage of ammo, in my observations anyway, is part of the difficulty on some of these megawads and projects, most notably Hell Revealed
Screenshots go up tomorrow. Too dang tired to do it right now lol
Berserk: This is the only reason why would anyone bother using the fist, to begin with. And on hard maps, one won't bother with it even if it had a whole-level duration.
Invulnerability: It's the power-up with the shortest duration of 30 seconds. In modern WADs, the invulnerability sphere is extremely rare to the point that if you see one, you should expect a very tough battle coming up (seeing one is practically an omen), and you probably need all of those 30 seconds.
Partial Invisibility: It might not be the most useful power-up, but it's probably the best thing after the invulnerability sphere to fend off those horrible hitscanners to some extent.
Valid points. I'll make the changes, but as far as the berserk goes I had the idea because I noticed some mappers using the berserk as an instant 100% health in the harder levels. And being as the ability to smash shit to pieces is really only used in the earlier levels my change would make sense. But, you're right it is really one of the only reasons for using fists at all.
And I got a couple screenshots up. I'll try to take screenshots of changes best as I can, but most of it will be textual changes that can't really be reflected in a screenshot. Nonetheless, enjoy
The health drain will make some maps where you pass across some 10/20% damaging floors without a radsuit impossible and the weapon for ammo RNG for the zombies is a very bad idea, consider those monsters dropping ammo AND their weapon.
As far as ammo drops it would really depend on how you did it. I can see your point, but others may not agree. Thus the reason why you don't have to do it. I know I like the idea, so whose to say others won't agree? With a random spawner I could modify the odds on the lesser drops. I've seen plenty of tactics about ammo conservation. Most of it choosing the right weapon for the right situation (Using a chainsaw on a pinkies instead of a SSG almost exclusively, for instance). The point of a difficulty mod to get the player to adapt, but that's just my take on it
In any case, before this turns into a screaming match or something , the idea is to make this amiable and flexible for as many players as possible while still making it tough
Taggart wrote:The point of a difficulty mod to get the player to adapt, but that's just my take on it
I agree, but you can't "adapt" to the game randomly deciding "nope sorry you don't get any guns or ammo today". Take a look at this to see a more extreme example (3 player classes with loads of different weapons each; good luck finding a usable shotgun!).
With the shotgun guy, maybe have him carry the double barrel shotgun? I was thinking about this today, but every shotgun zombie has the normal shotgun, none have the double barrel.
, the idea is to make this amiable and flexible for as many players as possible while still making it tough